Former President Donald Trump this week told right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt that he never liked hearing his supporters chanting to lock up former rival Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"I could have gotten Hillary Clinton very easily," Trump told Hewitt. "And when they say lock her up, whenever they said lock her, you know, they'd start, 30,000 people, lock her up, lock her up. What did I do? I always say, 'Take it easy, just relax, we're winning, take it easy.'"
CNN fact checker Daniel Dale, however, found Trump's claims of wanting to "take it easy" on Clinton to be completely at odds with reality.
"When people chanted 'Lock her up,' Donald Trump did not say take it easy," he said. "On many occasions, he paused his speeches for extended periods to let the chants continue. On other occasions, he said 'lock her up' himself!"
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He then rolled a montage of Trump in 2016 saying multiple times that Clinton deserved to be locked up, as well as instances in which Trump explicitly said, "Hillary Clinton should be in jail" for her mishandling of classified information.
Trump would subsequently be indicted for absconding to his Mar-a-Lago resort with boxes of top-secret government documents and refusing to give them back even after being served a lawful subpoena for their return.
"Trump has repeatedly attempted to rewrite history during this campaign and I think this is a particularly egregious example," said Dale.
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